Dec 24, 2020 Case Summary: Sunbird Scheme Sanctioned By Chloë Kealey On 16 December 2020, Justice Snowden sanctioned Sunbird Business Services Limited's (“Sunbird”) Scheme of Arrangement having previously...
Dec 24, 2020 Look Before You Leap: A Warning to Creditors on the Importance of Considering the Consequences of Intercreditor Arrangements when Seeking to Enforce By Brown Rudnick The recent case of Arlington Infrastructure Limited (in administration) 1 demonstrates the importance of complying with the conditions...
Dec 21, 2020 The General Data Protection Regulation – Requirement to Appoint a Representative By Brown Rudnick Introduction On 1st January 2021, absent a deal between the UK and the EU on data protection, it will be necessary for UK-based entities...
Dec 04, 2020 Trade Alert: The Netherlands By Brown Rudnick THE NETHERLANDS On 1 January 2021, the new Dutch legislation on out of court restructuring plans will enter into force. The Dutch plan...
Dec 03, 2020 Corporate Criminal Liability: Failure To Conclude By Brown Rudnick Background The law on corporate criminal liability in England and Wales is one of the biggest obstacles to tackling economic crime, which...
Nov 20, 2020 National Security and Investment Bill By Brown Rudnick Mark Dorff Recent years have seen a marked shift away from the era of economic globalisation since the (first) Cold War. Economic sanctions and...
Nov 06, 2020 Trade Alert: Ireland By Brown Rudnick Louisa Watt Iden Asl IRELAND Countries around the world are imposing further restrictions in light of the second wave of coronavirus cases with the Republic...
Nov 05, 2020 ICO Fines Marriott International, Inc. £18.4 million By Brown Rudnick Summary On 30 October 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”), which is the U.K.’s data privacy regulator, fined Marriott...
Oct 24, 2020 Federal Court of Australia Sheds Light on What It Means to “Give Possession” Under the Cape Town Convention’s Aircraft Protocol By Brown Rudnick On 7 October 2020, the Full Federal Court of Australia handed down its judgment in Wells Fargo Trust Company, National Association...
Oct 21, 2020 SEC Proposes Conditional Exemption for “Finders” Involved in Capital Raising By Brown Rudnick James Bedar Mark Dorff Michael Cohen +1 more... Show less On October 7, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed a new conditional rule exempting certain “Finders” from...
Oct 10, 2020 Pizza Express to Use Part 26A Restructuring Plan By Brown Rudnick On 30 September 2020, the English High Court granted PizzaExpress Financing 2 plc ("Company" or "Pizza Express") permission to proceed to...
Oct 08, 2020 UK courts set themselves up to resolve global standards licences By Brown Rudnick Unwired Planet v Huawei and Conversant v Huawei and ZTE [2020] UKSC 37 Overview The principle issue before the Supreme Court was whether...
Oct 08, 2020 CJEU rules on phone and internet data surveillance By Brown Rudnick Background On 6 October 2020, the CJEU issued its judgment[1] in case Case C-623/17, Privacy International, and in Joined Cases C-511/18,...
Oct 08, 2020 U.K. Court Sanctions First New Restructuring Plan for Virgin By Chloë Kealey In June 2020, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act came into force, introducing a new restructuring tool into Part 26A of the...
Oct 07, 2020 SEC Adopts Amendments to Modernize Shareholder Proposal Rule (Rule 14a-8) By Brown Rudnick James Bedar On September 23, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted amendments to modernize its shareholder proposal...
Oct 06, 2020 Trade Alert: Spain By Brown Rudnick SPAIN With the recent rise in coronavirus cases, the likelihood of a nationwide second lockdown in Spain is growing. The president of the...